Lead in residential soil and dust in a mining and smelting district in northern Armenia: A pilot study

Environmental Research

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 297-308

  Petrosyan, Varduhi ^a   Orlova, Anna ^b   Dunlap, Charles E ^c,d   Babayan, Emil ^e   Farfel, Mark ^b   Von Braun, Margrit ^f  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA   (Armenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Armen Inst Gen Hyg Occup Dis   (Armenia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Armenia; Lead; Residential soil and dust; Smelter

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

CONTAMINATED LAND; MINING; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SMELTING; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARMENIA; ARTICLE; DUST; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LEAD POISONING; MINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SMELTER; SOIL ANALYSIS;

ARMENIA; DUST; LEAD; METALLURGY; PILOT PROJECTS; SOIL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X-RAYS;

ARMENIA; ASIA; EURASIA; WEST ASIA;

EID: 1542321474     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-9351(03)00113-0     Document Type: Article

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